Mark Triggs submitted a patch to make
emacs-wiki not die on publishing errors. I modified his patch to use
the standard warning display functions and replace invalid Lisp code
with the text “INVALID LISP CODE.”

In particular, I am interested in personal information management. I
maintain PlannerMode, an organizer for Emacs. I use it to blog
(http://sacha.free.net.ph). My Emacs setup allows me to hit a
keystroke to remember anything from almost anywhere. It automatically
captures context and allows me to jump back to that. The source pages
are on my hard disk, so I regularly regexp-search through them. This
lets me use my blog to remember things.

People are surprised to find my task list, schedule and notes online.
They ask me why I don’t mind the lack of privacy. I find that
publishing my notes works to my advantage. Almost every other day,
someone writes in with a bit of info or a tip that’ll help me finish a
task. Plus, publishing my task list shames me into procrastinating
less.

I’d like to work on making it easier to retrieve information from my
blog and my e-mail. The Remembrance Agent
(http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/RA/) is great for
indexing mail and a few other resources. It brings up entries that are
relevant to the words around your cursor. You’ve probably run across
the software and related papers—if not, check it out!

I’m also interested in XML. I hacked in RSS export for my blog. It
autocategorizes my posts based on a regular expression. A minor
modification will let me define arbitrary rules.

I like the idea of RSS syndication because I want to aggregate and
search blogs without having to scrape HTML. With either a simple
regexp search or search-engine-like relevance ranking, finding
information in other people’s knowledgebases becomes much easier. If I
download feeds, I can even search offline. Push on creation is useful,
but people still need a way to get to old posts.

I used to really like CVS, but I found it hard to make my CVS stuff
available to other people. I didn’t want to have to rely on an
external CVS server. For a while I used vc’s double-backend support to
do RCS locally and CVS on savannah, but I found it hard to switch back
and forth.

Damien Elmes introduced me to tla. I really
like the way I can publish my repository online, over HTTP – no need
for special server support. I also liked how I could easily pull in
patches from other people. It was a bit hard to learn, but I
eventually got a repository up and running. I like how the metadata is
kept locally, so I can develop even when I’m disconnected, and yet I
can synchronize it with my webserver so that other people can pull
updates.

Are you sure you don’t want to give it a try? =) Here’s how to do it.
(Don’t worry, I won’t feel bad if you don’t use this.)